ABAP Quick Search for NWBC

In the SAP (Netweaver) Business Client you have a search bar in the upper range of the window. As soon as you type something in there, it tries to get search suggestions from all the defined so-calledsearch providers:

It is possible to add own search providers. For more information, see: WKS: How to use NWBC in TM - Search Providers

The ABAP Quick Search for NWBC is such a search provider.

With that search you can easily search for all ABAP related content available on your system and open it with one click:

Additional Features:

• Results are sorted by type
• Define a namespace and search it by typing //
• Extra fancy result page

• Search for special result types by typing \<object_type> (see file ABAP_Whitelist.xlsx or the list at the end of the document)
• Decide how to open tables: Do you want to see the structure (SE11) or the content (SE16)?

• Decide how to open BOBF Business Objects: In the BOBF Test UI or in BOBF Conf UI?

If you want to have the search included into your Business Client, please read this scn posting: How to include ABAP Quick Search into NWBC

Here is the standard list of result types for which is searched for. In case you want to search for a certain type, add \<object_type> to your search request.

E.g. "\CLAS" for classes.